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Summary: What is maturity?

This summary is only understandable if you have already studied the preceding questions.

Cognitive maturity

Ability to behave well in a constructive group. Individuals tend to be at an intermediate level between the extremes described in the following table.

Cognitive maturity level ₁

Objective

Natural mode of action

Report to the facts

Ability to practice problem solving

Long-term effect produced by cognitive dissonance ₈

Pathological ₁

Social ambition ₂
Individual happiness ₃

Widespread nepotism ₂
Pretend ₄

Rhetoric takes precedence ₆

Unable ₁

Beliefs
Lying to yourself ₈

Immature ₁

If assisted ₁

Mature ₁

Collective happiness ₃

Problem Solving ₅
Sincerity

Respectful of the facts ₇

Natural, informal ₁

Wisdom

Emotional maturity

Ability to manage one's own omnipotence, as well as the aggressions of others. Here too, individuals tend to be at an intermediate level.

Level of emotional maturity

Behavior towards social rules and conventions

Child

Only respect social rules within the limits of not seen, not taken.

Teenager

Spontaneously respects social rules... including when they are clearly contrary to facts and morality.

Adult ₉

Morals and facts take precedence over social rules and conventions.
Able to confront the group when it denies the facts.

 

Questions to refer to to better understand the two tables above:

Tell me how you make decisions, I'll tell you who you are

What are the consequences of social ambition? The notion of generalized nepotism.

What is the purpose of life?

What is difficult to overcome to succeed in life?

What conditions must be met to produce serious reasoning? Problem solving.

Why do humans reason massively wrong?

What do you have to do to be a good person?

What is cognitive dissonance?

What is an adult?

 

The proposed method for progressing in terms of maturity is described in question 'How to succeed in life?'.